Moving photos between computers

WHen i travel, i use a laptop to handle my photos.  When i return home i would like to move the pictures to my main computer, but i have already processed them and spent a fair amount of time on them.  How can i move the already processed photos across computers using LR4?
Thanks! 

Luiz-
I do the same thing quite a lot.
The best thing I can advise you is to start keeping your LR catalog (and previews) in Dropbox.
Then when you get home, put all the photo files in the hard drive that is your "main" one. Before you do ANYTHING else, wait until you are sure that Dropbox has updated the Main computer. Once you are sure it's updated, open light room and Select > Find > Missing folders and locate them with LR and you're set.
The only other item that I personally do is when I import the files (either on laptop or desktop), I always create smart previews. Then I can delete the photos from the laptop but still work on them.
This system has been bullet proof for me, but I frequently make a manual local backup of the catalog so I'll always be covered it I screw up the Dropbox syncs - though the few times I've done that, it was no big deal. LR recognizes that something is amiss and creates a "conflicted catalog" You can figure out what is wrong and redo it and then delete the conflicted catalog.
Good lucky
Tom

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